This book presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the
outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in
the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant
to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's
sense of wonder.

When was the last time you climbed a tree? Picked blackberries? Held a
snail race? Made maple syrup candy, an old-fashioned quill pen from a
bird feather you found, or a plaster cast of an animal track? If the
­answer is "can't remember" or quite possibly ­"never," The Bumper Book of Nature will inspire you to get outdoors and enjoy the very best kind of free entertainment for you and your family.

Imagine savoring fresh-picked strawberries on a weekend morning,
plucking plump figs from your mini-orchard to quarter and serve at a
farm-to-table meal with friends, or harvesting and sautéing the edible
stalks of garlic bulbs. If the size of your space is bringing you back
to reality, here’s the best part: you don’t need a big backyard to grow
your own food. In fact, you don’t need a yard at all.

Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara
Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or
injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and
often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their
secrets. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at
Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North
America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their
bodies to the limit, and, finally, to a climactic race in the Copper
Canyons that pits America’s best ultra-runners against the tribe.
McDougall’s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire
your body when you realize that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.

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